Well, there’s a bunch of service charges.  Can’t beat the Ticketmaster fees, the promoter’s got to get some of its money back. You know Gene ain’t parting with any of his! I’ll give the man credit.  Gene was 2010 back in the nineties.  With the coffin, the convention, he was all about superserving the niche.  […]

The Valiants played "She’s Not There" at Ilene Kramer’s bat mitzvah party.  Held at Hillandale Country Club on a gray February day, I actually danced a few times.  I’d recovered from being snubbed by Nancy Moss at Bert’s party the month before.  But what I remember most is sitting at that round table, listening to […]

From: Larry Solters Maybe TM should get some credit for "trying" to be totally transparent. But we always take the heat. My guess is that nobody in the industry or the public knows that the following is posted on every event page: "Our event provider clients decide at their sole discretion which of their tickets […]

What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where the CMAs are better than the VMAs? One in which the big winner is an MTV castoff, considered to be too old and too unhip for the mainstream. No, I’m not talking about Taylor Swift, I’m talking about Hootie!  Yup, Darius Rucker! He […]